The moment the door was closed, the screaming stopped abruptly.
Lu Cai's heart, which had been beating violently in her chest, finally stopped. She loosened her hands and raised her head, only to see two large blood-stained characters written on the door - GUILTY.
This was the criminal, Lu Cai knew. Because the person he had just seen in the dim light was Miss Yan, who had tricked an innocent girl into working at the hotel.
Lu Cai swallowed hard. Before she finally closed the door, she heard the sirens of the ambulance... and the scars on Miss Yan's neck and calves...
If she remembered correctly, the memory of the voodoo doll crayon drawing also included the sound of an ambulance.
She probably knew who the dismembered voodoo doll was in the Ghost Mirror branch.
So who is that little girl holding the voodoo doll? Is she doing these things... to punish the evildoers?
Squeak——
There was the sound of the door opening behind him again.
Lu Cai turned his head at the sound.
This time it was a single room. The young man was kneeling on the ground, scratching the rope around his neck with his hands.
The man's expression gradually twisted, and behind him stood a gaunt, elderly woman. His eyes grew unfocused, and his scratching hands grew limp. His body slumped, perhaps from drugging.
A young girl was lying on the big bed. She was in a deep sleep with her clothes a little disheveled. She was completely unaware of what was happening not far away from her.
The man ran out of strength and slowly closed his eyes. The woman still held his neck and did not let go for a long time.
"What did that child do wrong?" There was a hint of pleasure in the woman's old and dry voice.
In the void, a faint child's voice gradually rang out: "You will stay here forever—"
"I will stay here forever." The woman smiled bitterly, "I will accompany him--"
Lu Cai saw a hunched black figure in the corner of the room. It was so thin and helpless, like the entrance to an endless abyss.
Bang!
The door was closed again, and two words were smeared on it in blood - GUILTY.
Lu Cai frowned. Is this the trial scene for the guilty?
Who is the judge of all these sins?
She stood in the fog, looking at the big "Guilty" on the doors on both sides. She paused for a moment before walking deeper into the room.
As she expected, she witnessed the hotel manager being beaten with a club and the cook being hacked to death. Cai Lu slowed down and walked to the door of the next room.
This time, when the door was opened, there was a gloomy room with no windows. Only the dim light bulb above was flickering and shining.
There is a strong and tall man in the room. Who is he?
Cai Lu took a closer look and realized that the man was wearing a security uniform.
That security guard?
She was a little shocked. Wasn’t the hunchbacked security guard actually hunchbacked?
He paced anxiously around the room, his once quick steps becoming slower and slower, his steps becoming heavier. A shadow weighed down his back, bending his body and making him breathe heavily.
"He is the one who hurt you! It has nothing to do with me!" The man shouted in horror, tripped and fell to the ground.
The shadow on his back grew darker and darker, pressing down on the man's rapid breathing until the sound gradually died down.
Lu Cai stared at it in amazement. Was this how he got his hunchback?
A vague figure stood beside the man, and the light outlined a thin and hunched silhouette.
......
Behind the last door, a young woman was running around the house like crazy, with a few messy strands of hair hanging down the sides of her face from her tightly tied hair.
She screamed and dodged, shaking her head constantly and staring at the air behind her in horror.
He accidentally bumped into the windowsill, finally pushed open the window and jumped down.
Lu Cai clutched her chest as excruciating pain shot through her body. She squatted in the hallway, her limbs aching like they were broken.
The door in front of me slammed shut like the ones before it.
Lu Cai had seen the woman who jumped off the building before. In the voodoo doll's portrait memory, she was the mother of the little girl.
Looking at the bloody words on the door, she lowered her eyes. Why was this woman considered guilty?
The pain in her body gradually eased, and Lu Cai stood up shakily. She recalled a small fragment of memory about a character whose face was not shown.
So, this story is mostly complete.
What roles do the little girl, the hunchbacked boy, and the cleaning lady play in this plot?
A cool breeze brushed the back of her neck, and Lu Cai shuddered. He turned his head to look in the direction of the wind. In the dim light, he could vaguely make out several figures of varying heights and weights.
She took two steps back. This was too much!
The way here is blocked!
Among the figures, there were several familiar faces. A headless ghost in a suit, an axe ghost dragging a large axe, a portly cook ghost, a tongue ghost with its tongue hanging out, leaving only its head, and a puppet standing at the very edge...
But Lu Cai's eyes fell on the strange figure at the back. It was a young man in a white suit and shirt, his neck tilted and looking broken, with blood all over his face.
Before, she could barely handle it in a one-on-one fight, but now they were ganging up on her, which was too much!
"Hahahaha——" A shrill and strange laugh suddenly sounded behind her. Lu Cai hurriedly turned around and saw a black human-shaped shadow lying on the ground rushing towards her.
Lu Cai raised his hand and punched, then slashed fiercely with the dagger in his other hand. He quickly stepped back two steps, stopping only when his back foot touched the corner of the wall.
The human-shaped black shadow crashed into the opposite wall and then grabbed the wall with its limbs.
From her perspective, it looked like a large, shrunken frog, its limbs twisted and crouching against the wall. But a closer look revealed that the frog's limbs were broken and deformed, and its head was distorted as if it had been struck hard.
If a room corresponds to a ghost here...
Is this the mother of the little girl holding the voodoo doll?
Lu Cai felt nauseous.
“Hehehe——”
The "big frog" continued to laugh strangely, and the group of ghosts rustled. They all rushed towards Lu Cai, their postures crooked and with a sense of madness.
Lu Cai didn't want to fight, so he turned and ran. The wind was rustling, and Lu Cai bent sideways, and the cold wind brushed her right ear.
The "big frog" blocked Lu Cai's way, grabbed the carpet with its front legs, turned its body 180 degrees, and faced Lu Cai with its head.
She didn't have time to see clearly. Just as her steps paused slightly, the monsters behind her had already pounced in front of her.
Fortunately, despite her ability being blocked, her agility was still there. She thrust her blade towards the nearest shadow, a hissing sound, and rancid blood splattered on her face. She quickly drew her blade and stabbed at the next approaching shadow.
Suddenly, my wrist felt a sharp pain, the skin and flesh turned outward, and the smell of blood wafted away.
Lu Cai didn't care about the wound. He paused for a moment and continued to chop at the figure beside him.
But the smell of living blood stimulated these ghosts. A sharp axe came crashing down, and Lu Cai couldn't stop it. He dodged it, turned his wrist slightly, and stabbed it hard into the axe ghost's arm.
The tip of the knife scraped past bone, the sharp edge shaving off a piece of flesh. The next moment, dry claws from behind grabbed her shoulder, sharp nails digging into her flesh.
Lu Cai raised his elbow and slammed it hard behind him, then turned around and kicked the headless ghost, and he fell to the ground.
At this moment, her abdomen felt like it was pierced by a sharp object. She glanced at the corner of the wall and saw a black-haired doll holding a pair of scissors and stabbing it into her stomach far away from the crowd.
He made a clenching motion with his empty left hand, and a pistol appeared in his hand. He dodged the slapping tongue and quickly loaded the gun, causing another wound to explode on the back of his hand.
The voodoo doll began to pierce its palms with scissors.
He raised the gun and aimed at the voodoo doll, his hand holding the gun trembling slightly.
——
Bang--
The gunshot was shocking. Yue Xiaoyan stopped and looked at the corridor on the side. Shi Rukui, who was a few steps ahead of her, also stopped.
"It's Lu Cai—" Yue Xiaoyan looked at Shi Rukui inquiringly.
They thought they were safe in their room during this side storyline, but the hotel manager came to investigate, claiming an employee was there to handle the complaint and hadn't returned yet.
They were not prepared to respond, so the hotel manager used the universal room card to enter the room. The hotel manager was unreasonable and said as soon as he entered the room that they were making a malicious complaint and would take them to the front desk to register.
It looked like they couldn't go to the front desk, so the two of them teamed up to besiege the hotel manager, but they didn't expect the other party to become furious and enter a ghost state.
The ghosts in this side quest were ridiculously powerful, and in the end Yue Xiaoyan had to set up a maze to hold the ghosts back, giving the two of them time to escape.
Although the ghosts were difficult to defeat, at least they allowed the two to understand the rules of this side quest.
First, even seemingly normal NPCs can suddenly go ghost-like. Second, there's no safe place in the side quests; you either fight or run, and as long as you survive the mission time limit, you'll be able to complete the level safely.
This is probably the reason why the ghosts in this side story have extremely high power. After all, players only need to dodge.
"Let's go and take a look." Shi Rukui saw that Yue Xiaoyan was worried about Lu Cai, even though he thought that Lu Cai could handle it alone.
After walking in the direction of the gunshot for a while, Yue Xiaoyan stopped and listened carefully, but did not hear any other sound.
The two looked at each other and were about to pick a corridor at random.
The sound of a wooden stick scraping against the wall was heard ahead, and the water drop pendant in her hand felt so hot that she almost let go and dropped the pendant.
The light, which was already dim, flickered. Shi Rukui raised his hand to block Yue Xiaoyan and looked at the other end of the corridor.
There was a slight hissing sound, and a vague outline slowly approached.
The lights suddenly came on and the hunchbacked boy stopped. Blood was flowing from his forehead, running down his cheek to his chin.
The young man looked at the two people in the corridor, and Yue Xiaoyan couldn't help but shudder, with goose bumps all over her body.
This young man hated them; this was Yue Xiaoyan’s only thought.
Snap——
The overhead light tube shattered, sending scattered glass fragments raining down on the two men. Then, a beam of light shone from Shi Rukui's shoulder onto the aisle.
Yue Xiaoyan was pulled aside by Shi Rukui. In the swaying beam of light, she saw the silhouette of the hunchbacked boy flash past her.
Looking at the flashlight that Shi Rukui had placed on his shoulder, Yue Xiaoyan also remembered that she had such an initial lighting prop and began to search in the system card slot.
Shi Rukui waved his stick to fight the enemy, and Yue Xiaoyan fell into darkness, but the flashlight still did not turn over.
Shi Rukui's long stick hit the hunchbacked boy's baseball bat. When the two forces collided, Shi Rukui's hands suddenly became numb. He quickly took a few steps back and vomited blood.
This ghost is too strong.
A bloody baseball bat hit him on the head.
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